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Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and director of the ACCESS Project, gave a lecture in conjunction with the photo exhibit "The Missing Story of Ourselves" at the University of Washington, Seattle, on Jan. 19. The exhibit is on display at Odegaard Undergraduate Library through Jan. 30. It includes museum quality, framed color photographs and narratives created by women and men who either are, or were, poor parents and students changing their lives through the pathway of higher education in the United States.

Hamilton recounts the loss of one of its longest-serving trustees, who died early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25. "[Dick Couper's] death is an immense loss for Hamilton," said President Stewart.

Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, co-authored a paper with Mark Klinedinst titled "Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation in Bulgaria after Mass Privatization: Evidence from New Panel Data," recently published in the book Participation in the Age of Globalization and Information, which is volume 9 in the series Advances in the Economics Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, edited by Panu Kalmi and Mark Klinedinst, and published by Elsevier. This analysis of both private and state-owned Bulgarian firms reviews the potential impact of ownership and age of the firm on diverse issues concerning corporate governance and executive compensation from 1997 through 2001.

Hamilton College launched a redesigned Web site on Monday, Jan. 23. The visual presentation of information on the site has been improved to represent current standards for Web design and fit more seamlessly in the family of College publications and overall College visual identity. You'll see a new home page concept and improved variety for layout and design. The new site is running in "beta" mode -- many of the changes occurred instantly, but we'll continue to fine-tune the site in the days following launch. Since this is a beta launch, we look to the community to provide feedback and report bugs in the system.

Haley Reimbold ’06 received a $500 Youth Literacy Grant from the National Educational Agency for the Young Scholars Community Initiative, a youth empowerment group that Reimbold began at Proctor High School in Utica. The goal of the group, which currently has 68 members, is to reach out to low-income teens who live in the Cornhill neighborhood of Utica by creating a teen-run coffee shop that will function as a community arts center and performance venue.

“SHOW TITLE HERE,” the Hamilton College art faculty exhibition, will be open through April 15 in the Emerson Gallery. There will also be three artist talks during February, each from noon to 1 p.m. in the gallery, beginning with Ella Gant and Rebecca Murtaugh on Wednesday, Feb. 1, followed by Sylvia de Swaan and Barry Gerson on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Bruce Muirhead and Joy Powell on Wednesday, Feb. 15.

Stephen J. Goldberg, associate professor of art history, delivered a public lecture titled, "Chinese Art in an Age of Mongolian Rule: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)" at Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, in Atlanta Georgia, on Jan. 17.  He also presented a lecture titled, "The Authority of Excellence: WhatCan Confucius Teach Us About the Art of Chinese Painting?" as part ofThe Year of China 2005-2006 at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw,Georgia, on Jan. 18.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Michelle LeMasurier was invited to present a paper she wrote with two colleagues, "Closed Relations and Equivalence Classes of Quasicontinuous Functions," at the national meetings of the American Mathematical Society in San Antonio, Texas, on Jan. 12. The paper will appear in the journal Real Analysis Exchange in August, 2006.

A Critical Cinema 5 is comprised of 14 interviews in which Scott MacDonald, visiting professor of art history, engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the interactive community of filmmakers that has dedicated itself to producing forms of cinema that critique conventional media.

Edward Walker, Hamilton alumnus of the class of 1962 and former U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Israel gave a lecture on "The Changing Strategic Picture of the Middle East" on January 19. Walker talked about how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has changed the political situation in the Middle East, and what lessons we should take away from the war for future action in the region.